为什么中国人出国旅游时还吃中国食物而不是当地菜肴？（下） [美国媒体]

Why do Chinese tourists still eat Chinese food when traveling and not try local cuisines?

为什么中国人出国旅游时还吃中国食物而不是当地菜肴？（下）

Ji Yang, Chinese, has studied in Canada since 2012
Answered May 14
Existing answers already gives fairly enough perspectives on explaining the OP’s question.
I’d like to add a few more my opinions, just based on my observation from my friends and family.
My mum said she really enjoys having some local cuisine when traveling, but, sometimes it is just hard for her to understand the menu, or knowing what exactly something on the menu is. BTW, my mum can speak English pretty fluent for daily life. Last summer, when she went to some European countries, she realized the local’s English is way worse than her…
Also pointed out by my mum, when she traveled to some East Asian country, (with all our respects, I don’t talk about which countries they are), the food is just not clean enough to eat. Also, not all the local foods taste good to Chinese people. My mum has to carry some instant noodles (from China) with her during the travel.
Chinese tourists often travel to other country by a group, lead by some tour guides, the group size is often larger than 10 people. If you’ve been some Chinese restaurant you can definitely see some big tables that left for large groups. This does not hold for most of western restaurants. Imagine you have a group of 16 Chinese people (very normal for a Chinese traveler group), and you have to allocate them into, say 4 small tables. Not a good idea, I believe.

已经有很多人的回答可以解释题主的这个问题了。
我想说一下我自己的一些观点，根据我对朋友和家人的观察得出。
我妈妈说她旅游时很喜欢吃当地的一些菜肴，但是有时候她真的很难理解菜单上的内容。我妈妈的英语还是可以的。去年夏天，她去某些亚洲国家旅游，她意识到当地人的英语比她差多了。
正如我妈所言，当他去某些东亚国家时（出于敬意，我不说是哪些国家），食物不够干净。而且不是所有当地食物都合中国人胃口的。所以我妈妈不得不从中国随身携带一些方便面去。
中国游客经常组团出国旅行，导游带头，一个旅游团一般十人以上。如果你去过中国餐馆就知道有一些桌子很大，给那些成群结队的客人准备的。而大部分的西方餐馆没有这种准备。想象一下你有一个16人组成的中国旅游团，然后将他们安排在4张桌子上，我觉得这不是好主意。

Sheng Zhong
Answered May 5
Bear in mind that China is a world, a world in parallel to the entire West.
A Canadian traveler would be happy to try Spanish food in Spain, but that’s just like a traveler from Liaoning province trying local food in Guangxi province. Not a surprise at all.
It is much less likely that a Canadian traveler would try local cuisine in Nigeria, because Nigeria is not part of her world. For the same reason, a Chinese traveler from Liaoning province might not want to try food in Venezuela.
Sometimes, Western travelers do have an edge, because Western restaurants are readily available throughout the world, and because the local food everywhere is influenced by the Western food. If we take that into account, you might find Chinese travelers more open to “foreign” cuisines than many Western travelers.

记住，中国是一个世界，一个和整个西方平行的世界。一个加拿大游客去西班牙旅游时很乐意品尝西班牙食物，那就像一个辽宁游客在广西品尝当地食物一样。一点都不奇怪。
而一个加拿大游客不太可能去品尝尼日利亚的食物，因为尼日利亚不是他那个世界的一部分。同理，来自辽宁的游客可能不会去品尝委内瑞拉的食物。
有时候西方游客是有优势的，因为西式餐馆全世界都有，而且当地食物都受到了西方食物的影响。考虑到这一点，你就知道比起很多西方游客，中国游客其实对“外国”菜肴持更加开放的态度。



Allen Ng
Aug 13
Jerome: I think you said it quite well here concerning the dining culture of the Chinese tourists in the US. Very culturally defined that Chinese generally love to dine without restriction of freedom of expression. Generally they love to be themselves enjoying and expressing happiness and joy in dining with their family,, friends or groups of other tourists. This cultural behavior is well received by myself but sometimes is not well received by the others in the community especially the higher end (maka maka) communities who likes to dine in more quiet and less crowded atmospheres.

我觉得你很好的说明了来美国的中国游客的饮食习惯。中国人真的很喜欢吃饭的时候无拘无束的聊天。他们喜欢和家人，朋友或者和其他游客一起吃饭的时候成为真正的自己，享受和表达快乐幸福之情。我个人接受这种文化行为，但是更高端社区的某些人是不喜欢的，他们喜欢在安静和不那么拥挤的氛围中吃饭。